CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-2748
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-10-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
The malloc function in the libSystem library in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by setting the MallocLogFile environment variable to the target file before running a setuid application.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x 10.3.9
• apple mac os x 10.4.2
• apple mac os x server 10.3.9
• apple mac os x server 10.4.2
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Sep/msg00002.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16920/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.auscert.org.au/5509 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-312.shtml US Government Resource
- http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv7.pdf www.suresec.org
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Sep/msg00002.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16920/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.auscert.org.au/5509 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-312.shtml US Government Resource
- http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv7.pdf www.suresec.org